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Re:Atari 65XE by lowercased on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @10:13PM (#26485713)
Many of those early EA games were so... well done, inventive, and really captured your imagination.

MULE, 7 Cities, Archon, Pinball Construction Set, Skyfox, Adventure Construction Set, Music Construction Set, Racing Destruction Set, Heart Of Africa and Bards Tale were all... relatively mind-blowing (although my mind was only... 12-13 at the time!).

They seemed to be capable of both pushing the computer past its limits and expanding the idea of what was possible in game (or just... with the 'construction sets'... what was possible).

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Re:Atari 65XE by ofrzeta on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @09:57AM (#26491295)
Also the Lucasfilm games such as Rescue on Fractalus or Koronis Rift. And Mercenary by Novagen.
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Re:Atari 65XE by lowercased on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @01:38PM (#26494454)
indeed the list goes on. i was trying to just list some EA games, but Epyx ('summer games'!!!), Infocom, Lucasfilm and others all produced some groundbreaking work for their time.
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